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Even fewer visits to tax office

- BY PROKOPIS HATZINIKOL­AOU

Taxpayers will be able to carry out remotely all their business with state agencies regarding property transfers, original tax declaratio­ns or amendments for past years such as the Large Property Tax (FMAP) or the Single Property Levy (ETAK), as well as various property certificat­es.

All declaratio­ns related to property tax cases such as transactio­ns, inheritanc­es and parental concession­s, as well as a series of applicatio­ns and documents, will be submitted to the tax offices by email, courier or registered post, in an effort to reduce taxpayers’ visits to tax offices ahead of the full digitizati­on of all tax procedures related to capital taxation.

The decision by the director of the Independen­t Authority for Public Revenue, Giorgos Pitsilis, determines that taxpayers will not have to go to their local tax office for capital taxation matters for which there is no online procedure available yet. All declaratio­ns, applicatio­ns and documents will have to be forwarded by post or courier, or be scanned and sent electronic­ally to the director of the competent agency at the IAPR or the protocol agency.

The certificat­ion of the applicants’ identity can be done either via a formal statement issued via the dilosi.services.gov.gr website of the Single Digital Public Administra­tion Portal www.gov.gr, through which they can declare they are the signatorie­s of the applicatio­n/statement, or through the certificat­ion that their signature is genuine at a Citizens Service Center (KEP) or another state authority.

Signatures can also be confirmed as genuine in cases of declaratio­ns of donation tax, parental concession and property transactio­n) by the notary who attaches the related document provided that the signatory has signed the document in the presence of the notary.

In the case of the electronic forwarding of declaratio­ns, the formal statement is also sent electronic­ally with the declaratio­n submitted. The certificat­ion of taxpayers’ signature or the submission of the formal statement for proof of identity is also required in cases where declaratio­ns are submitted directly to the protocol agency of the tax office, regardless of whether a taxpayer is there in person or not.

of the IAPR has decided that all declaratio­ns related to property tax cases such as transactio­ns, inheritanc­es and parental concession­s, as well as a series of applicatio­ns and documents, will soon only be accepted by tax offices by email, courier or registered post.

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